2011-03-24

eclipsing white dwarfs

Schiminovich and I spent the morning discussing our GALEX projects to find eclipsing binaries. Agol's recent paper points out that we might be the first people to find a habitable-zone planet! Schiminovich, on spring break with astronomy students, followed up two of our candidates and got confirmed eclipses and therefore periods. We need to publish something! He also pointed out that WISE might be relevant for finding hot stars with colder companions.